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Petaminx: Rubik's Cube on Steroids

By Alex in Toy & Video Games on Mar 4, 2009 at 7:28 pm


If the Rubik’s cube is too easy for you, check out this puzzle created by Jason Smith of PuzzleForge, based on Andrew Cormier’s design. Behold, the Petaminx, a dodecahedral puzzle with 4 slices per face:

It is entirely custom built and contains almost 1000 moving parts.

This project took place over two months, including:

20 hours on masters and molds.
12 hours casting parts.
30 hours cleaning up parts and sanding (!!)
7 hours assembling all 1000 parts
6 hours stickering.

Also checkout the video clip of Andrew Cormier’s Teraminx – via Unique Daily


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  1. SomeGuy
    Mar 4th, 2009 at 7:35 pm

    That thing would make me want to kill myself.

  2. Thomas
    Mar 4th, 2009 at 7:38 pm

    "20 hours on masters and molds.
    12 hours casting parts.
    30 hours cleaning up parts and sanding (!!)
    7 hours assembling all 1000 parts
    6 hours stickering."

    And two years of your life to solve it.

  3. Neil Camberly
    Mar 4th, 2009 at 7:59 pm

    I MUST have that thing.

  4. David Govett
    Mar 4th, 2009 at 9:03 pm

    Life's too short for such monomania.

  5. Johnny Cat
    Mar 4th, 2009 at 9:09 pm

    Oh, Haayyll no!

  6. Richard
    Mar 4th, 2009 at 9:58 pm

    I can't imagine why anyone would want one of those... other than to screw it up forever.

  7. Txateer
    Mar 5th, 2009 at 12:05 am

    ummmm...why?

  8. Camilla
    Mar 5th, 2009 at 2:24 am

    If I had it I wouldn't so much try to solve it, I'd just scramble it and put it on a shelf. It's beautiful!

  9. stephbot
    Mar 5th, 2009 at 3:54 am

    CRUEL AND UNUSUAL FUNISHMENT.

  10. Edward
    Mar 5th, 2009 at 5:55 am

    If it only took 65 hours to create this toy, Jason Smith is a prototyping genius. I bow before skills I can only begin to imagine.

  11. Mobes
    Mar 5th, 2009 at 6:00 am

    Really nice. The thing that gets me is that the Rubik Cube was beautiful because of it's difficulty compared to it's simple design. Although these cube variations are beautiful, they look (and are!) really difficult - the Rubik cube looked easy.

  12. Skipweasel
    Mar 5th, 2009 at 9:41 am

    Looks like it needs some detents to ensure the segments line up easily and reliably.

  13. Andrew D
    Mar 5th, 2009 at 3:07 pm

    I wonder if the guy Will Smith played in The Pursuit of Happyness can create a formula to solve it?

  14. TigerGulp
    Mar 5th, 2009 at 10:22 pm

    *is scared*

  15. Speedcubing.ro
    Jul 19th, 2009 at 7:17 pm

    yes. thats a very nice work...that guys makes a lot of nice puzzles. you can find him on http://www.twistypuzzles.com

    if you want to check a nice collection check this one:

    http://www.speedcubing.ro/18/colectia-mea-de-cuburi-rubik-8-iunie-2009

  16. nugraha
    Dec 18th, 2009 at 6:37 am

    that would take my whole life to solve it

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